The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-29
Florida W.. California.

| Thousands of immigrants have moved
| to California during the last few years
only To find disappointment. for they
| found that California was only place
| for rich men and spectators, the land
| being dryand no use unless irrigated, and
| that irrigation Tor water costs them ten
| times more than the land as the follow
| ing extract from California paper
proves:
Some idea of the value of water
| i'm Southern California may be gained
| from the opening of the Gage irrigating
canal, near Riverside. Three years ago
| land sold above Riverside for five dollars
an acre. Ii was without water and was
counted valuable only for grazing. Mr..
Gage made "A contract with a large num-
Der of owners To furnish them with
| abundant water at 800 per acre. Then
| he dug an eleven mile canal, supplied
| with water partly from the Santa Anna
| river, but mainly from artesian wells.
| Recently water was turned into the
canal, and land which sold for five dol
lars now sells for $500 an acre"
The matter of the cost of water Is care
fully kept i'm the back ground when the
immigrant il looking for land, but when
| he has once invested he finds his lands
of no more good than pile of stones,
unless he can irrigate and thus che Is
done for" California is in the hands OF
/ spectators and syndicates that control
all the good lands and water privileges
| and no one but "A rich man can afford to
buy and cultivate il. The labor market
Is also overdone by cheap Chinese labor,
so that the poor man Is cut of from
making "A decent living. For the poor
man California il a giifed frdnd, il gilt
tiers like gold when seen 5000 miles
| away, but when the eager settler reaches
| what he thinks the promised land, he
| finds the gold only mica and pyrites,
| and his beautiful dream of paradise
melts away and leaves him with parched
| dry lips and blasted hopes, i'm a barren,
| dry, treeless, burnt up country, with no
means To return, or hope for
man, or the farmer, or stock raiser
go to Florida, or Georgia, or Alabama,
how different his fate from that of the
California immigrant. ln Florida. Geor-
gia and other States he will find "A genial,
| warm hearted people to take him by the
hand, ready and willing Ia give him in
formation that will help him, and "A land
that is capable Of producing almost any
thing he may want, "A climate that II al
most perfect, plenty of work If lac wants
to work for others, and he can get "A
home at a reasonable price, with a home
demand for all he can produce; and by
few years of labor, he and his family
will be independent, he rW be free from,
cold and rinfer storms, free from cy-
clones and floods. free from Socialists.
strikes and panics Of all kinds. But
we could fill this whole journal and not
enumerate half the advantages that
settlers in the Gulf States will have over
those who go out to the far West or 10
California, and a. we have already used
more space than we should we will leave
the subject to be written up by ADLER
and more experienced writers in the
pages of the Southern Immigrant. But
in conclusion we must say to poultry
breeders that we believe that the South
ern States must become the great pouI-
try producing part of our country. The
mild climate gives the Southern breeder
such great advantages over the
Northern breeder that he can
not only raise fowls cheaper,
but can have them matured and ready
for market before the Northern breeder
can get his eggs Matched. The Southern
people are learning this and the interest
IN fine poultry is becoming greater every
year, and il behoOves the Northern and
Western breeders to take advantage 81
it, for there will .Se al increasing demand
for good stock to supply the yards of the
Southern breeders. We shall have more
to say on this important subject later on,
but in the meantime those Interested
should send ug their subscription To the
Southern Immigrant, and also we will
he glad to send sample copies to all who
may want to see it, and will consider it
a favor il our readers will send US a list
of names Of their neighbors who would
like to see a sample copy.